KIEV, Oct. 25 – Ukraine as of October 24 had threshed 51.4 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from 12.2 million hectares (85% of forecast).

KIEV, Oct. 22 – The Kiev Pechersky District Court has withdrawn the arrest of the property of PJSC Rivneazot (part of Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem).

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Deputy head of Presidential Administration Dmitry Shymkiv has called on law enforcement and fiscal agencies to stop pressuring IT companies, describing such pressure as inadmissible in the current economic and political situation in the country, he wrote in an op-ed article in Ukrainska Pravda.

KHARKIV, Oct. 22 – Kharkiv Airlines (part of DCH of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky) in cooperation with the Pegas Touristik tour operator on October 20 launched flights from Boryspil to Goa (India).

KIEV, Oct. 23 – The restoration of irrigation systems in the south of Ukraine would increase the country's grain harvest to 80 million tons, the Deputy Agricultural Policy and Food Minister said.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has criticized the banks for their model of participation in the economy and said that the president has ordered the use of every possible mechanism to reduce interest rates on loans to enterprises to 14% per annum by the end of this year.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Ukraine is studying the prospects for the development of cooperation in military shipbuilding with Southeast Asian countries, including Cambodia, Thailand and South Korea, Ukroboronprom State Concern told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said he was unhappy at the presence of representatives of Russian confectionary companies among inspectors of Rospotrebnadzor checking the confectionary factories of Roshen Corporation.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – The government should systemically strengthen economic policy to focus on support for domestic production, as negative trends were observed in the country's economy in September, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Auchan, a French developer of supermarkets and shopping centers, is planning within two months to sign a loan agreement with the International Finance Corporation to attract $75 million for the construction of hypermarkets and shopping centers.